Chapter 9 Gently then—very gently, the Doctor woke the man up.But just at that moment the match went out again. And the man thought it was Ben Ali coming back, and he began to punch the Doctor in the dark.But when John Dolittle told him who it was, and that he had his little nephew […]
Chapter 8 Up they got, early next brightly and that the wind was blowing from the South.Jip smelt the South wind for half an hour. Then he came to the Doctor, shaking his head.“I smell no snuff as yet,” he said. “We must wait till the wind changes to the East.”But even when the East
Chapter 7 Right away an axe was found. And the Doctor soon chopped a hole in the door big enough to clamber through.At first he could see nothing at all, it was so dark inside. So he struck a match.The room was quite small; no window; the ceiling, low. For furniture there was only one
There was a camel who lived at the edge of an oasis. Once, when it fell ill, all its friends and relatives came to visit it.As it was a long journey in the desert, each of them halted to take rest and ate the grass that grew along the oasis.When the sick camel recovered from
Chapter 6 Everything would have gone all right if the pig had not caught a cold in his head while eating the damp sugar-cane on the island. This is what happened:After they had pulled up the anchor without a sound, and were moving the ship very, very carefully out of the bay, Gub-Gub suddenly sneezed
Chapter 5 Sailing homeward, the Doctor’s ship had to pass the coast of Barbary. This coast is the seashore of the Great Desert. It is a wild, lonely place—all sand and stones. And it was here that the Barbary pirates lived.These pirates, a bad lot of men, used to wait for sailors to be shipwrecked
Chapter 4 Under the kind treatment and observation of John Dolittle all the sick monkeys were saved from the jaws of death. They were thankful to the doctor. John dolittle requested the monkeys to go back to their home.By the edge of the river they stopped and said farewell.This took a long time, because all
A fox jumped into a flock of geese. The geese were frightened that the fox would eat them all. The fox, on the other hand, as a matter of generosity, granted them a last wish.“Say your last wish,” said the fox.“Please let us say our prayers before we die,” replied the geese.“Go on,” said the
Chapter 3 Queen Ermintrude had never in her life seen her husband so terrible as he got that night. He gnashed his teeth with rage. He called everybody a fool. He threw his tooth-brush at the palace cat. He rushed round in his night-shirt and woke up all his army and sent them into the
Chapter 2 One fine morning, Doctor Dolittle got a message from the swallow. The message stated that there was a terrible sickness among the monkeys out there. They were all catching it and are dying in hundreds. As the people out there had heard of John Dolittle, they had requested him to come over to
Once an Arabian woman bought a hen and took it home. Next morning, she was surprised to see that the hen was not laying an ordinary egg but a silver egg. The woman was extremely happy. She began dreaming of her hen laying more than one egg a day. She would sell them at a
Chapter 1 Long, long ago, there lived a doctor whose name was John Dolittle. He was an M.D which meant that he was well versed in his profession. He had vast knowledge of his profession.He lived in a little town called, Puddleby-on-the-Marsh. All the folks, young and old, knew him well by sight. And whenever
When a Seagull went into business with an Owl, the owl had to borrow money from others. The Seagull, of course, had a bejewelled necklace with him, which it invested in the partnership business in some distant land.But the ship on its journey collided with an iceberg and sank. Only those two travellers, capable of
Chapter 9 One day, Clover and Elsie were busy downstairs, they were startled by the sound of Katy’s bell ringing in a sudden and agitated manner. Both ran up two steps at a time, to see what was wanted.Katy sat in her chair, looking very much flushed and excited.“Oh, girls!” she exclaimed, “what do you
Chapter 8 Spring opened late that year, but summer, when it came, was a warm one. Katy felt the heat very much. She could not change her seat and follow the breeze about from window to window as other people could. The long burning days left her weak and parched. She hung her head, and